RE: Midrange Knowledge test

[Jeff Bull <Jeff.Bull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My two-penny worth ...

The reason that employees usually leave soon after receiving training is
that many employers fail to recognise/appreciate the new skills gained
during the training where it counts most - the pay-packet.  They invest in
training to make the employee a more effective member of staff, to be able
to take on more work, or work of a higher grade, or more responsibility;
IMHO this justifies a higher wage and if the employer is unwilling to
provide this, they deserve to lose the employee - wasting their investment.

Kind regards,

Jeffrey E. Bull
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-----Original Message-----
From: rob@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 23 December 2003 16:17
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Midrange Knowledge test


Oh I'll grant that I can see the temptation to hire the person that has 
the skills now over the one who doesn't.

Rob Berendt
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"All creatures will make merry... under pain of death."
-Ming the Merciless (Flash Gordon)




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Unfortunately, for too many companies if you don't already have the 
skills they want RIGHT NOW, it's not worth their while to train you 
"because you'll just leave for a better position."

I've been relatively lucky-- the managers I work for do seem to 
realize the benefit of 'generic' training (ie tech conferences &c).

Def: Generic Training--  training not intended for immediate use for 
a specific task, but training for things in general.  Such as web 
facing, when your company is not looking in that direction.  A "John 
Sears" talk in which the presenter describes how the computer thinks, 
or the concepts behind the compilers.

--Paul E Musselman
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Rob wrote (in part):

>Failure [to pass a portion of a knowledge test] would not constitute 
>an inability to learn, just where they need to send you to training.
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